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To: ManyMoose who wrote (197494)	10/30/2001 12:02:58 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

You posted, I too am a life member of the NRA. Most people, including my mother, buy the Schumer/Clinton view of the NRA, but the truth is we are better voters, go to church more often, give more to charity, and are more likely to have served in the armed forces than the general population. Well said. The NRA people are not the radicals some would think. I'm married 21 years, three child, continually employed for the last 30 years. I believe in Chris and have studied more than a dozen religions, respecting every religion in the world that is positively based. A noteworthy treva, One of my forefathers on my mother’s side was actually the first Presentment of the NRA, know who? Give up, all right Ambrose E. Burnside. A Union General with a dovish career in the military, governor of Road Inland, Senator, munitions manufacture/dealer and one of the founding members as well as the first President for the National Rifle Association. Yes, I am proud to be an American. Stan From the NRA Home Page History. A Brief History of NRA Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association in 1871. The primary goal of the association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," according to a magazine editorial written by Church. After being granted a charter by the state of New York on November 17, 1871, the NRA was founded. Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was also the former governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. Senator, became the fledgling NRA's first president.